Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest outside Barclays in Glasgow
dailyrecord.co.ukClimate activists have staged a protest outside Barclays office in Glasgow.The Extinction Rebellion protesters called for an end to finance for the fossil fuel industry and poured oil on a chained globe during the event in Argyle Street.The Stop Rosebank group, which is campaigning against a new oil field in the North Sea, also backed the protest.In November last year, two men were arrested after windows were smashed during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Barclays offices in Clyde Place Quay.Rachael Alexander, from Extinction Rebellion Scotland, said: "Barclays have proven that their corporate and public strategies to target climate change are little more than hot air."They do not care about the planet, and they do not care about us."As long as fossil fuels are still profitable, they will continue to invest despite knowing that rising sea levels will leave parts of Glasgow underwater in a matter of decades."No amount of empty promises and meaningless jargon will absolve them of their responsibility for such environmental destruction."Sally Clark, from the campaign group Biofuelwatch, said: "It is shocking that Barclays is funding forest destruction, biodiversity loss, environmental injustice and climate-wrecking emissions through its investments in Drax which is the UK's single largest carbon emitter and the world's biggest tree burner."If we are to keep global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees, we need to protect and restore the world's forests, not allow big polluters like Drax and funders like Barclays to send our futures up in smoke."D on't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - Sign up to our daily newsletter here .
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